The world wants more Canada. At Eurovision 2027, that’s exactly what they will get 🇨🇦

Great to see more use of break detection to identify effective policies - for agricultural emissions in Europe: "the most effective [...] being mixes addressing N2O emissions, primarily through improved fertilizer management and more efficient nitrogen use." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Policy mixes and major emission reductions in European agriculture

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture are a major driver of climate change. Although various policies have been implemented to reduce agricu…

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Glad to have had the chance to present our work on climate policy mixes & green innovation at the @uvic.ca Economics Department & talk about econometrics w @felixpretis.bsky.social this week. Vancouver Island is such a beautiful place. On a good day, you can see as far as the Olympic National Park!

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Austria's newly famous tool-using cow - maybe it should have been a co-author? "Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow" - www.cell.com/current-biol...

Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow

Osuna-Mascaró and Auersperg report flexible, multipurpose tool use in a cow, expanding the known range of mammalian tool users and underscoring overlooked cognitive capacities in livestock.

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“if you take carbon out of the ground, you must put it back” - Our OpEd with Andrew Weaver @ajwvictoriabc.bsky.social and Myles Allen in the Calgary Herald.

Calgary Herald@calgaryherald.com · 7mo ago

Opinion: Decarbonized oil is Canada’s climate opportunity calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Opinion: Decarbonized oil is Canada’s climate opportunity calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Grizzly hunting won't reduce attacks - article in @thenarwhal.ca cites our working paper in which we 'find little evidence that lethal control interventions lead to significant long-run reductions in human-black bear conflict' (albeit for black bears): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Grizzly hunting won’t reduce attacks, experts say | The Narwhal

After recent attacks in B.C. and Alberta, some are calling to re-open the grizzly hunt — but experts say there’s no evidence it would reduce conflicts

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The costs of Direct Air Capture will not fall as much as hoped. "Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore* continue at pace, says the research team." *Therefore is problematic here, as it implies that if DACCS was cheap less reductions are needed. No, no, no. ethz.ch/en/news-and-... 1/

Call for papers: HISTORY OF CLIMATE ECONOMICS Details at: journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19... Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Deadline for abstracts : January 15th, 2026

History of Climate Economics

Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...

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Drought influences human-wildlife conflict in California, very cool paper! Results seem consistent with our work on human-wildlife conflict in BC: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Kendall Calhoun@kendallcalhoun.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our new study just came out taking a look at how drought influences human-wildlife conflict reports in California! Check it out here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fascinating study! I wouldn't mind a domesticated raccoon.

Alan McElligott@amcell.bsky.social · 10mo ago

2025. Tracking domestication signals across populations of North American raccoons (Procyon lotor) via citizen science-driven image repositories frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

My paper examining the accuracy of hurricane damage nowcasts is now out in the International Journal of Forecasting. Open access link (until Jan 3) is here: tinyurl.com/4eztf7xx

Experience curves indicate that successful technologies reduce in cost by ~20% for each doubling of cumulative production. However, we find that past learning rates are not very predictive of future learning rates, throwing many energy tech cost projections into doubt. doi.org/10.1016/j.ad...

I sat down for a nice long chat on the Nick Standlea Show about the economics of AI: How it's changing our labor market, who it's going to help and hurt, how policy can help, and what each of us can do to stay relevant. Posted to my (fledgling) youtube channel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oful...

The AI Revolution Is an Ownership Problem, Not a Tech Problem — Economist Justin Wolfers

YouTube video by The Nick Standlea Show

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Working on econometrics and climate? 🌦️ The Econometrics Journal & EMCC call for papers for a new special issue on 'Econometric Modeling of Climate Change and the Green Transition' - submit by February 28th, 2026. More information on the EMCC website: sites.google.com/view/emcccon... #Econsky

Thanks to all the attendees and presenters for making the trip to Victoria for the 9th Conference on Econometric Modelling of Climate Change tinyurl.com/emcc2025uvic! See you next year in Aalborg! #EconSky

"Going deep: Can CO2 be locked away below the seafloor?" - great overview on our Solid Carbon project for offshore geological CO2 storage by the team at New Frontiers (who are kindly funding the research): sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/funding-fina... #Econsky

Attention Climate Solutions Scholars! @uvic.ca seeks its next Canada Excellence Research Chair 🇨🇦: www.uvic.ca/research-inn... You: world class scholar, looking to make a move Us: #5 in world for climate action, collegial, stunning location (B.C.) w award-winning climate policy Pls share widely!

Canada Excellence Research Chair - University of Victoria - University of Victoria

Find information about applying to be Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Victoria

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Excited to announce a new funding opportunity for research on "what works" in climate adaptation. We are specifically looking for strong causal designs that tell us what interventions work (or don't) to reduce impacts of a changing climate. Plz share + apply! seedfunding.stanford.edu/apply/U5N4

The preliminary programme for the 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change at the University of Victoria, 2025 is now available online! Looking forward to seeing everyone in Victoria in August! #EconSky tinyurl.com/emcc2025uvic

How much did the carbon tax actually impact inflation? My latest for @TheHubCanada: thehub.ca/2025/05/22/... #cdnecon #cdnpoli

Interesting meta analysis on the social cost of carbon - quite surprising to see authors themselves be variables in a regression!

Richard Tol@richardtol.bsky.social · last yr.

Updated meta-analysis of the social cost of carbon reveals a narrow group of authors and hints at selective citation nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

Only 4 more days to submit! The abstract submission deadline for the 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change is coming up on April 17th! #EconSky

Felix Pretis@felixpretis.bsky.social · last yr.

Heads (and elbows) up: The call for abstracts for the 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change (University of Victoria, BC, Canada – Aug. 27-28, 2025) is open until April 17th! #Econsky Looking forward to seeing you in August! More info at: www.tinyurl.com/emcc2025uvic

Today the BC carbon tax has been removed. It's unfortunate that a simple climate policy had become so politicized. Talk about ironic timing: our paper on the CO2 response to carbon pricing just came out in the April issue of Energy Economics. Hot off the press, cold in the policy grave. #Econsky

Carbon pricing and the elasticity of CO2 emissions

Using newly constructed sector-specific carbon price data, we study the response of CO2 emissions to carbon pricing policies for a cross-country panel…

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Heads (and elbows) up: The call for abstracts for the 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change (University of Victoria, BC, Canada – Aug. 27-28, 2025) is open until April 17th! #Econsky Looking forward to seeing you in August! More info at: www.tinyurl.com/emcc2025uvic

Thanks to the Canadian New Frontiers in Research Fund for supporting our Solid Carbon project on offshore geological carbon storage solidcarbon.ca! @uvic.ca Many open economic questions to be explored - reach out if you're working on the economics of carbon storage and removal! #EconSky

A rock-solid climate solution – SolidCarbon

SolidCarbon - Solid Carbon can remove carbon emissions and safely secure them forever.

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Ocean Networks Canada@oceannetworks.ca · last yr.

1/🪨ONC welcomes today’s announcement of $24 million over 6 years from #Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund to advance Solid Carbon — one of the most promising #CO2 removal projects to combat the #ClimateCrisis. News release 👉🏼 bit.ly/4iu77g3 🧪🌊 #mCDR @uvic.ca

In Nature Climate Change, @chrisbataille.bsky.social and I describe three common situations when energy/economic models are detrimental to climate policymaking efforts 🧵 rdcu.be/ecSMX